I want one. Not to wear, but to endlessly clone.

I would speculate that most of the design is focused around ensuring raw data integrity, some levels of redundancy all while attempting to prevent physical tampering.

Flooding the network with bogus traffic would probably be the route I would take first. I wouldn’t want to cause full saturation of the network causing a DoS, but rather, flood the network with tons of overlapping IDs and lots of random location information. (I would make plans for it to be an eventual DoS anyway. If you want to hide your tampering, you need to tamper at a large scale and interfere with as many devices as you possibly can. If there is some kind of police response process, saturating that would be super important as well.)

Sure. There are probably many people that actually should be monitored for violent crimes and I have no problems with that. However, the level of security theater with these things is probably maxed out as well. I am sure that the people issuing these things have no clue how they actually work and it’s in their benefit to overstate any capabilities to any lucky “customer”. Many of those people couldn’t figure out how they work either and believe anything they were told about it.

I am sure there is going to be several layers of encryption, but of capitalism is still in full force, there are probably just as many broken implementations.

Of course I am just vomiting out lots of speculation, but if there is a weak spot, it probably isn’t with the physical design of the thing, but rather in the way it manages its communication protocols and how the devices are managed at scale.

Really though. If someone needs an ankle monitor for something serious, cutting the thing off and running is all it takes. Just leave all other transmitters at home and you will have a decent chance of hiding… (This includes your wallet that is crammed full of RFID tags. Don’t carry those with you, please.)